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Recommended Course Outline: For the Beginner through Advance.
For the beginning banjo player, we recommend starting with You Can Teach
Yourself Banjo. This course will definitely give you an understanding
of how and why, as well as demonstrates each technique with a song.
Each lesson builds upon the techniques learned in the previous lesson.
By the end of this course, you should be able to play any song you want
to play on the banjo.
The video, Create Your Own Arrangements By Ear, is also for beginning
players. It goes into detail on the chord locations all over the
fingerboard, how to pick out the tune for a song, and how to turn a tune
into a bluegrass song on the 5-string. This works well as a supplement
to You Can Teach Yourself Banjo, although, if you have some playing
experience, you should be able to work with this by itself.
The Banjo Handbook is also a recommended companion book for You Can
Teach Yourself Banjo, as well as for players at other levels. It is a
reference book which contains banjo set-up information (setting the
bridge, adjusting the playing action, tightening the head, etc.) basic
roll patterns, advanced rolls, licks, back-up licks, songs, and more.
The course which follows these is Splitting The Licks on the 5-String
Banjo.
By the end of this you should be able to play any song "by ear" on the
banjo in several different styles-Scruggs, melodic, and advanced.
Up-The-Neck should follow this, so that you can play any song you want
to play in the 5th-22nd fret areas of the fingerboard.
The Major Scales can be used by any level player.
You will learn the fingerboard, exercise your fingers, understand how
music works on the banjo and much more.
Famous Banjo Pickin' Tunes contains fun to play arrangements in
tablature for all level players (beginning through advanced). These are
familiar tunes to most people, and can be heard played slow and up to
speed on the CD which is included with the book.
Back-Up Banjo will teach you to play along with vocalists and other
instruments. It is a very comprehensive course, designed to help you
improvise your back-up. A lead arrangement is included with each song,
too, so that you can record the lead and practice the back-up along with
the lead.
The video set, You Can Play Back-Up by Ear, is a great companion course
to the Back-Up Banjo Book/Video course.
You can practice playing back-up with other instruments.
By the end of this course, you should be very comfortable playing
back-up with anyone. Also, you should really know your fingerboard.
Start early! In tab! Many of your favorite Christmas Carols arranged for 5-string banjo.
For all level players Book/CD.
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